Lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage: emergency room management
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Amyloidosis presenting as lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
AL-Amyloid rarely presents in the gastrointestinal tract as acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage, especially in the absence of clinical disease elsewhere in the body. There are no reported cases of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance progressing to AL-Amyloid presenting as lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage. We report a case of a patient initially diagnosed with monoclonal gammopathy...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anales de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Asunción)
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1816-8949
DOI: 10.18004/anales/2015.048(01)13-022